Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-09-30
farmers' Column.
Give fools their gold X knaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who sovvs a field or trains flower,
Or plants a tree. is more than all.
W heat Culture.


ting in the wheat will be an impor-
tant part of the labor this month
The ground will need at least one
more thorough stirring with cultiva-
tor or harrow before the seed is sown.
1t cannot be made too mellow or be
too finely pulverized for seed bed,
and as each stirring assists in germin-
ating and destroying the weed seed
that lie dormant in the soil it will al
low the plants to get better growth
before the weeds spring up to choke
them out, and give cleaner crops next
year. No seed should be used which
has not been first carefully screened
and winnowed, for the removal of
foul stuff from it, and to take out
shrunken, light or imperfect seed of
any kind. 1t should then be treated
with brine, or with solution of Wit
riol or sulphuric acid, to prevent the
smut. From the 10th to the 25th of
this month is the most usual time for
sowing, but it needs to 60 in earlier
upon cold lands than upon warmer
soil, and in northern regions earlier
than farther south;also upon very light
soil it is we'll to delay the sowing, as
only certain amount of growth is de-
sirable before winter. 1t should be
remembered, however, that seed ger
inmates more slowly when a good
super-phosphate is drilled in with it
than when stable manure is used to
enrich the land.
The usual amount of seed used is
from one bushel to five pecks to the
acre when drilled in, and about half
bushel more when sown broadcast,
to make up for loss of seed by cover
ing too deep or not deep enough, the
proper depth being about one and a
half to two inches. The more mellow
the soil and the more liable to surface
drying the greater the depth of SOW
ing should be. If all seed could be
placed at equal distances apart, and
equal depths, a much less amount of
seed would be sufficient. A Connect
cut farmer sowed about two hundred
rods of drill with one quart of wheat,
and harvested eight bushels, and
thought he would have lad more if
biros and neighbors, to whom wheat
head is a curiosity, could have been
kept away from it. As there could
be over 1900 rods of drill, one foot
apart, in an acre, it would require
little over thirteen quarts of seed, and
yield equal to his would give over
hundred bushels per acre: or City
bushels per acre could be grown in
drills at two feet apart, from six and
a-half quarts of seed. We do not ad-
wise farmers to go so far as this in
the matter of lig ht seeding. They
cannot all have old garden soil to sow
their seed upon, nor give it garden
cultivation or the possibilities oflight
seeding in good soil.
Rolling the ground after sowing the
seed also has a tendency to cause the
plant to "tiller out" so as to cover
the ground, and throw up numerous
stalks from each root. But when this
is done the land must be rich enough
to carry out the crops, even to the
growth of grain. The use of u good
super-phosphate has been found to
greatly stimulate the growth of wheat
but the difference in phosphates is
but imperfectly understood even by
those who have used them for many
years, and many fail in the expert
ments because OF not knowing how to
adapt them to their crops or soils. AS
general rule, it may be said that for
this crop ammonia or nitrogen in
creases the growth of leaf and stalk.
and makes it more rapid, potash
stifers the straw and prevents the
lodging of the grain, and pbosphoric
acid makes plumper, heavier grain
and better -four. OF course each of
these ingredients assists in other ways
but these hints may help the
farmer to improve his crop when he
knows in what particular he. has fail
ed in years past.-Am.~ Cult.
It is general accepted that brewers
grains are not a wholesome food for
cows, and the milk furnished by them
when fed from it, is of an inferior
quality, and not fit for habitual use
especially as food for infants.
1t is a good plan to save the 10 wer
Gods Of Limar beans for seed, as these
are always the earliest. Like begets
like in this respect. Some seed growers
have obtained in this way Lima beans
SC much earlier than the common
kind as to merit the claim of being a
distinct variety. 1t is a good plan to
begin growing Lima beans by plant
ing this early kind.
It is the practice Of some milkmen
to SOW a mixture of oats and peas in
succession for green feed. The oats
are cut just as they are coming in
head, by which time the pea vines
will be pretty we'll podded Though
the bulk is not SO great as from sowed
corn, the cows eat it readily, and it
makes a richer and better milk pro-
duclng food than does most sowed
corn.
Straw las considerable nutritive,
value. if rightly used, though to try to
WlnCe[ any StOch ou IL alouo 10 SuCu
an abuse of it as to make the posses
sion of straw-stacks an absolute inju-
ry to any one who attempts it. At
present prices of grain and oilmeals,
one or both may be fed in connection
with straw, the latter giving bulk and
all the nutriment of which it is capa-
BILE. If fed alone, stock will not eat
straw readily, and their digestion will
be so poor that they cannot get full
benefit of what they do eat. 4
If the foreign wheat crop is as good
as reported, the demand for American
breadstuffs, even at present low prices
must be. light in the. near future
Some authorities state that the Euro.